September 3: The signing of McDaniels is official, according to a team press release.
August 18: Jalen McDaniels has agreed to a contract with the Pelicans, sources tell Shams Charania of ESPN (Twitter link).
The 27-year-old small forward saw limited time in four games last season after signing a 10-day deal with the Wizards in February. He spent most of the season with Washington’s G League affiliate, the Capital City Go-Go, where he averaged 13.5 points and 7.2 rebounds in 38 total games.
McDaniels played his first three and a half NBA seasons in Charlotte after being selected with the 52nd pick in the 2019 draft, but he has bounced around the league since then. He was sent to Philadelphia in a four-team deal at the 2023 trade deadline, then signed with Toronto that summer. He was traded twice last year, being shipped to Sacramento in June and San Antonio in October. The Spurs waived him a day later, and he remained in the G League until he joined the Wizards.
In total, McDaniels has appeared in 252 NBA games with career averages of 6.7 points, 3.3 rebounds and 1.2 assists in 18.1 minutes per night.
Charania doesn’t release any details of McDaniels’ new contract, but it could be an Exhibit 10 deal with an invitation to training camp. With 14 standard contracts, the Pelicans have one roster opening and are roughly $4.2MM below the luxury tax line, so they could carry a 15th man into the regular season without going into the tax.
McDaniels is ineligible for a two-way contract because he has already played six NBA seasons.
He’s signed but Lonnie Walker is not in the league???
Walker took the overseas money.
Walker is not a NBA player. If you’re going to score and play Zero Defense you need to be an elite scorer. Think Ben Gordon. He can’t play without the ball in his hands and he doesn’t score good enough to make up for that. He also is point guard size playing like a two. You guys gotta stop acting like guys are getting passed over. He needs to learn how to come off screens and play off the ball
Typical Weaver and Dumars cooking….
What are they doing? Nothing against this guy but the roster is in horrible shape. No veterans other then D Murray and Looney babysitting these kids.
Jones, Williamson, Poole and Murphy are the same age, find a C around the same age, get younger to match Fears, Queen and Missi. Also get some veterans to teach the young guys. Unless this team is about to tank.
Trade Murray and Karlo for a C the same age as above
Waive McGowens, Springer and Alexander and sign a real young SG and SF on two way contracts then sign three old veterans (guard, forward and a big man) to sit on the bench
Fire the medical staff, make sure the coach is decent, also change your team name
This is easy Dumars